Oside

[JarrodMc]

It's been a long time since I've posted anything but I went out today in Oside with my buddy Justin. We hit the water about 5:30, got bait and headed to the ARs.

After searching around for some signs of big fish we found a reef. Our first pass over the reef I got hooked up on a fatty sandy. I made another drift over trolling one line and throwing a swimbait. My plastic got hammered on the drop, right after my line I trolled got hit, I set the hook on the plastic (or so I thought), started reeling and boom line goes slack. Darn fish chomped the tail off... I look at my other line with the bait and that fish is gone. Damnit! Justin got a couple small rockies that lived to swim another day. While we were sitting on our spot out of nowhere we saw a T-shark breach full out of the water! Crazy, I wish I had my GoPro running but we all know how that goes. I chucked an iron at that area for a while for no dice. After the shark passed through, that spot slowed down after a few more drifts so onward we went.

Next reef we make a pass over it and it looked fishy. I threw my swimbait again and got 3 Calico on 5 casts passing over the reef 2 of which were keeper size but all were released healthy. The current was pulling pretty good as the day went on so we made multiple passes over each spot.

While paddling around we saw bait getting pushed up so we both chucked some metal for a bit. I caught another small calico with some beautiful checkering.

We both continued paddling around looking for more life but there wasn't a whole lot going on out there. On the way in we made a couple more drifts over the spots we found. Casting plastics I landed another sandy that looked about 15-16" but I let it swim away also. We dropped baits for a little longer but we kept getting short bit and called it a day.

No bigguns but it was a fun day on the water!